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Well, only two multiplayer games, but they are games. One is zero-G astronaut battler (with excellent space furniture), Shattered Horizon, and the other is slightly wonky Wild West shoot ‘em up Lead & Gold: Gangs Of The Wild West. They’re temporarily free to play on Steam over the weekend, with a large discount for actual permanent purchase if the freeness persuades you of long-term appeal.

Hmm. That – Shattered Horizon, I mean – would have made a good game club outing. As Phill pointed out, it’s benefited great from its updates. Oh well, maybe we squeeze in some astronaut deathmatchery between the Arma II exploits. Hell, I bet Notch goes and makes SMP work properly before the weekend and then I will have to play that too.

Lead & Gold isn’t even worth “free”. I paid $15 for that piece of crap and I’m lucky if I even see four people playing the game. I spent a few hours trying to play it and only got a few rounds in. Even at that, they were choppy and laggy. It looked like a LOT of fun, but what’s the point if there’s nobody to play with?

Now all I’m thinking about is a Paradox game where you can reload the revolver just fine, but you’ve had to set up the industries required to make the gun, make the bullets, make the steel to make the gun and bullets, mine the coal to fuel the industries, then the separate industries required to make your clothes, etc.

Just think about it! Enemy in the field giving you hassle? Lead sneaky, deadly stealth teams in daring raids and smack out their industries, then fight them again! Let’s see them fight a war without bullets.

I played Shattered Horizon last free weekend, it was okay I guess – but not something I liked enough to grab me for any longer times. I’ve always wanted to try out Lead & Gold though, it looks pretty interesting!

But a Minecraft RPS meet-up would be fun too, and will probably keep me away from the other games this weekend >_>

@Davee, an organised RPS Minecraft meet-up would be neat, if they update their official servers or maybe even just have new servers specifically for the event. And yes, I do mean servers, because knowing the volume of RPS minecraft heads around here a single server would probably fill up double quick sharp and later crash horribly again and again.

Also about this shattered horizon, I’m always intrigued by it but then I look at my windows 7 rig, with its pentium 4 HT processor and 8800 somethingsomething graphics card and decide it wouldn’t be worth the hassle to make it work. Maybe if I got a lot of money somehow I would upgrade to a new rig and then try it out…

@Malagate: my old rig with a 939 dual core and 8800GT 512 could *just* play it on minimum settings, though it struggled with servers with more than 10 players. If your P4 isn’t dual core, I certainly wouldn’t bother.

To everyone else, you should definitely give this a try. Futuremark have added plenty to the game and it’s a great blast and a refreshing change from traditional multiplayer shooters.

I bought Lead & Gold during one of the free weekends and I find it a really fun game. There’s a better server browser now. I must say that I didn’t have any lag or FPS problems one of the previous posters had.

Shattered Horizon is really good but for some reason I never played it too much.. an RPS server and Game Club for SH would be awesome. You can live out all your pent-up Moonraker fantasies. As long as they don’t involve shagging Bond girls obviously…

Well I’ve played Shattered Horizons quite a bit to day, it is indeed quite good fun. They’ve nailed the atmosphere for me when you shut down the suit to run quiet. Almost worth purchasing for that. I must say though, I’m not very good at it.